Somnath Kumar
Research Engineer at General Robotics
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSomnath Kumar is a research engineer with six years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and embedded systems, currently driving research at General Robotics from Bengaluru. He has worked on LLMS and reinforcement learning at Microsoft, developed hybrid control algorithms at Carnegie Mellon, and contributed optimal-control and model-extraction work for quadruped and video-classification projects at IISc and Bosch. Comfortable across deep learning frameworks, web and app development, and IoT hardware, he blends theory with hands-on implementation—from reinforcement learning experiments to embedded control for real robots. Curious about computer architecture and robotics, he brings a pattern-seeking mindset and a track record of shipping research-driven prototypes that bridge simulation and physical systems.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hex-plex/hex-plex.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:55 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
hex-plex/KiloBot-MultiAgent-RL
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:88 commits, 37 pushes in 5 months
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